Wisconsin Poet Laureate to Visit Whitefish Bay Library

Max Garland, the current Poet Laureate of Wisconsin, will visit Whitefish Bay Library Thursday night at 6:30 p.m.

The Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, who selected Garland as Laureate, praised his poetry for its richness of language, human understanding, and accessibility to broad audiences. His poetry collections include The Postal Confessions and Hunger Wide as Heaven.

As Wisconsin’s Poet Laureate, Garland hopes to “reach out to those who may feel alienated from the world of poetry (or art), and yet have deeply felt experiences to record and honor…. [P]oetry is still a means of expression open to everyone. It’s one of those things that’s just too important to be left to experts.”